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Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:1301966575
Author : Hormoz Ebrahimnejad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134062485
The history of medicine in non-European countries has often been characterized by the study of their native "traditional" medicine, such as (Galenico-)Islamic medicine, and Ayurvedic or Chinese medicine. Modern medicine in these countries, on the other hand, has usually been viewed as a Western corpus of knowledge and institution, juxtaposing or replacing the native medicine but without any organic relation with the local context. By discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern (Western) historiography in the aftermath of the colonial and post colonial periods, the book proposes to bridge the gap between Western and 'non-Western' medicines, opening a new perspective in medical historiography in which 'modern medicine' becomes an integral part of the history of medicine in non-European countries. Through essays and case studies of medical modernization, this volume particularly calls into question the categorization of ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ medicine and challenges the idea that modern medicine could only be developed in its Western birthplace and then imported to and practised as such to the rest of the world. Against the concept of a ‘project’ of modernization at the heart of the history of modern medicine in non-Western countries, the chapters of this book describe ‘processes’ of medical development by highlighting the active involvement of local elements. The book’s emphasis is thus on the ‘modernization’ or ‘construction’ of modern medicine rather that on the diffusion of ‘modern medicine’ as an ontological entity beyond the West.
Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781512818680
The relation of the progress of medical science to the social history of humanity. Starting with the seventeenth century, the author analyzes the defeats as well as the triumphs that medicine has gone through to reach its present usefulness.
Author : James Le Fanu
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0349112800
The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine presents a comprehensive and searching reappraisal of the science, philosophy and politics of modern medicine.
Author : Abigail Woods,Michael Bresalier,Angela Cassidy,Rachel Mason Dentinger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319643373
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book breaks new ground by situating animals and their diseases at the very heart of modern medicine. In demonstrating their historical significance as subjects and shapers of medicine, it offers important insights into past animal lives, and reveals that what we think of as ‘human’ medicine was in fact deeply zoological. Each chapter analyses an important episode in which animals changed and were changed by medicine. Ranging across the animal inhabitants of Britain’s zoos, sick sheep on Scottish farms, unproductive livestock in developing countries, and the tapeworms of California and Beirut, they illuminate the multi-species dimensions of modern medicine and its rich historical connections with biology, zoology, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The modern movement for One Health – whose history is also analyzed – is therefore revealed as just the latest attempt to improve health by working across species and disciplines. This book will appeal to historians of animals, science and medicine, to those involved in the promotion and practice of One Health today.
Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0028530705
Author : Richard H. Shryock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:310798019
Author : Richard Harrison Shryock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Medicine
ISBN : OCLC:78177191
Author : William Osler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1015817211
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : F. González-Crussi
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-11
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780812975536
Insightful, informed, and at times controversial in its conclusions, A Short History of Medicine offers an exceptional introduction to the major and many minor facets of its subject. In this lively, learned, and wholly engrossing volume, F. González-Crussi presents a brief yet authoritative five-hundred-year history of the science, the philosophy, and the controversies of modern medicine. While this illuminating work mainly explores Western medicine over the past five centuries, González-Crussi also describes how modern medicine’s roots extend to both Greco-Roman antiquity and Eastern medical traditions. Covered here in engaging detail are the birth of anatomy and the practice of dissections; the transformation of surgery from a gruesome art to a sophisticated medical specialty; a short history of infectious diseases; the evolution of the diagnostic process; advances in obstetrics and anesthesia; and modern psychiatric therapies and the challenges facing organized medicine today. Written by a renowned author and educator, this book gives us the very essence of our search to mitigate suffering, save lives, and unlock the mysteries of the human animal. “[González-Crussi fuses] science, literature, and personal history into highly civilized artifacts.” –The Washington Post, on There Is a World Elsewhere
Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780525428107
The epic history of how antibiotics were born, saving millions of lives and creating a vast new industry known as Big Pharma. As late as the 1930s, virtually no drug intended for sickness did any good; doctors could set bones, deliver babies, and offer palliative care. That all changed in less than a generation with the discovery and development of a new category of medicine known as antibiotics. By 1955, the age-old evolutionary relationship between humans and microbes had been transformed, trivializing once-deadly infections. William Rosen captures this revolution with all its false starts, lucky surprises, and eccentric characters. He explains why, given the complex nature of bacteria—and their ability to rapidly evolve into new forms—the only way to locate and test potential antibiotic strains is by large-scale, systematic, trial-and-error experimentation. Organizing that research needs large, well-funded organizations and businesses, and so our entire scientific-industrial complex, built around the pharmaceutical company, was born. Timely, engrossing, and eye-opening, Miracle Cure is a must-read science narrative—a drama of enormous range, combining science, technology, politics, and economics to illuminate the reasons behind one of the most dramatic changes in humanity’s relationship with nature since the invention of agriculture ten thousand years ago.
Author : William Osler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732681839
Reproduction of the original: The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler
Author : Michael Bliss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226059037
At the dawn of the twenty-first century, we have become accustomed to medical breakthroughs and conditioned to assume that, regardless of illnesses, doctors almost certainly will be able to help—not just by diagnosing us and alleviating our pain, but by actually treating or even curing diseases, and significantly improving our lives. For most of human history, however, that was far from the case, as veteran medical historian Michael Bliss explains in The Making of Modern Medicine. Focusing on a few key moments in the transformation of medical care, Bliss reveals the way that new discoveries and new approaches led doctors and patients alike to discard fatalism and their traditional religious acceptance of suffering in favor of a new faith in health care and in the capacity of doctors to treat disease. He takes readers in his account to three turning points—a devastating smallpox outbreak in Montreal in 1885, the founding of the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School, and the discovery of insulin—and recounts the lives of three crucial figures—researcher Frederick Banting, surgeon Harvey Cushing, and physician William Osler—turning medical history into a fascinating story of dedication and discovery. Compact and compelling, this searching history vividly depicts and explains the emergence of modern medicine—and, in a provocative epilogue, outlines the paradoxes and confusions underlying our contemporary understanding of disease, death, and life itself.
Author : Thomas Helling
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781643139005
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.
Author : James Joseph Walsh
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9791041985234
"Makers of Modern Medicine" is a book written by James J. Walsh. James Joseph Walsh (1865–1942) was an American physician, historian, and author, known for his works in the history of medicine and science. Published in 1927, "Makers of Modern Medicine" likely profiles key figures and contributors to the field of medicine, highlighting their achievements and the impact they had on the development of modern medical practices. The book could cover a range of medical pioneers from various periods, providing insights into the evolution of medical knowledge and practices. If you are interested in the history of medicine and the individuals who played crucial roles in shaping the field, "Makers of Modern Medicine" by James J. Walsh could be a valuable resource. It may offer biographical information and historical context, showcasing the progress and challenges in the world of medicine up to the early 20th century.